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New research from Western University unravels a novel means of communication that allows bacteria such as Burkholderia cenocepacia (B. cenocepacia)...

Researchers report that they have found a direct genetic link between the remains of Native Americans who lived thousands of...

The World Health Organization lists shift work as a potential carcinogen, says Erik Herzog, PhD, Professor of Biology in Arts...

The genetic malady known as Fragile X syndrome is the most common cause of inherited autism and intellectual disability. Brain...

Bacteria on a surface wander around and often organize into highly resilient communities known as biofilms. It turns out that...

Scientists have long known that control mechanisms known collectively as "epigenetics" play a critical role in human development, but they...

A protein from bovine blood can keep gold nanoparticles from clumping in a solution—a discovery that could lead to improved...

Development of a sophisticated artificial pancreas holds potential to transform the lives of patients with Type 1 diabetes.Type 1 diabetes...

Your brain often works on autopilot when it comes to grammar. That theory has been around for years, but University...

Genes make up about 2 percent of the human genome. The rest consists of a genetic material known as noncoding...

In the middle of the South Atlantic, there’s a patch of sea almost devoid of life. There are no birds,...

Last summer, in a Harvard robotics laboratory, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paper clip, weighing less...

Scientists have accurately calculated the sliding mechanism for deciphering the second genetic code written within the DNA base pair sequence....

The rats sensed the light as a sensation of touch after Duke neurobiologist Miguel Nicolelis and his team fitted the...